{"id":45,"date":"2006-08-18T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T18:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-08-18T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T18:53:22","slug":"data-access-up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/data-access-up-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Access up in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two announcements\u00a0over the last couple of days\u00a0stand in an interesting contrast to each other.\u00a0 One is Google’s announcement of Google WiFi<\/a> and the availability of free WiFi access across all of the city of Mountain View<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The second is Boeing’s<\/a> announcement<\/a> to exit from\u00a0providing WiFi access on board carriers flying Boeing aircraft in December 2006, after having equipped 156 aircraft with their Connexion<\/a> service, including those from carriers like Lufthansa, SAS and Singapore Airlines. (This follows an announcement<\/a> in June of Verizon to also exit the in-flight phone business.)<\/p>\n

Access to things like VoIP, web-based on-line services and data content, like that of our own Formtek | Orion<\/a> repository, or any of hundreds of other kinds of services from anywhere and anyplace is enticing.\u00a0 The net is becoming (or has become) the driving force for business communication and data.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Google’s roll-out across\u00a0the entire city of Mountain View seems to have been challenging and have had a few glitches.\u00a0 All\u00a0transmitters are not in place just yet either.\u00a0 Also the disclaimer that the service is an “outdoor service” and does not work well in-doors is a bit\u00a0disappointing.\u00a0 Considering\u00a0the service\u00a0has only been up a few days, it seems to be doing well — I’m looking forward to the planned roll-out in San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exit of Boeing and Verizon from in-flight WiFi might prove to be an interesting alternative for Google.\u00a0 For example, immediately after Boeing’s announcement ASiQ<\/a> in turn announced<\/a> that they see Boeing’s exit as greater opportunity for them.\u00a0 Boeing’s Connexion was based on technology circa 2000.\u00a0 It’s only six years, but technology has changed quickly and ASiQ has developed a much cheaper alternative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There has been a lot of press about Google’s efforts to try to penetrate the Enterprise market.\u00a0 While free community-wide net access is great (especially if it is somewhere that I’ll be frequently), I wonder that if Google is really serious about the Enterprise that it might be a better and more cost-effective strategy for\u00a0them to provide free WiFi in places like airports and airplanes, places where business people are in high numbers.\u00a0 It seems like it would be far easier and\u00a0have fewer obstacles in getting approval to do something like that rather than to try to blanket the landscape of an entire community with WiFi.<\/p>\n

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Two announcements\u00a0over the last couple of days\u00a0stand in an interesting contrast to each other.\u00a0 One is Google’s announcement of Google WiFi and the availability of free WiFi access across all of the city of Mountain View.\u00a0\u00a0The second is Boeing’s announcement…<\/span><\/p>\n

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